The Fourth Civilization's 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers had actually disguised External Antimatter Propulsion Devices along their hulls!!
When had they done it? No one knew.
But now, boosted by those antimatter propulsion devices, the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers began rapidly flying out into space!
This sudden development left everyone in the Galactic Republic forces stunned!
Why were they doing this? Did they not realize that this meant directly abandoning their ground troops? Yet judging by those External Antimatter Propulsion Devices, this had clearly been a plan they had prepared long ago.
So what exactly were they planning?!
But it was already too late. No matter what the Separatist fleet was plotting, there was no longer time to stop them!
And what could they use to stop them?
Within the atmosphere, especially under the gravity of a Class A planet like Malastare, things became extremely troublesome. Ordinary fighters needed a long acceleration run to reach escape velocity and break free of the planet's gravity.
And even if those 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers left now, there were still more than 2,000 Tri-fighters inside the atmosphere! In this situation, did they expect to abandon the fight, accelerate toward space, and turn themselves into targets?
The 10 Hunter Class battlecruisers and 3 Acclamator-class assault ships that had already entered the atmosphere faced the same problem. For these massive warships to return to space, they likewise had to concentrate all their energy into their engines and accelerate.
All of that took time.
But the Separatists' 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers had made up for that weakness with their external antimatter propulsion devices.
They could simply accelerate and leave the planet!
Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was commanding the ground battle, raised his binoculars to watch the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers accelerating toward space. Then something suddenly occurred to him, and